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The doses involved in using drugs as medicine are often a lot lower than what someone would take to get "blitzed". Do you homework.
I drink alcohol every day to feel calm. I hope you don’t look down on me for that.
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police unions - that makes sense. Since the comment didn't specify that, I was also quite confused for a bit
I don't know if it was edited, but the comment your responded to did specify police unions when I made my comment.
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Thanks for this. I was wondering if other people felt their anxiety pass with adderall and heard reports people get more anxious. Good to know less anxiety is a common response for some.
I missed this response earlier, but want to make sure I don’t let it pass by. Stimulants can make you more anxious. If you’re not actually treating a dopamine deficiency, it can be like way too much coffee. If you are treating a dopamine deficiency, in some cases it can cause anxiety regardless but in most cases heightened anxiety is a sign the dosage is too high. Generally it helps relax the brain chaos and it shoul…
Which shows that your point about drug titration is spot on. And in a way that's in the pro column for stimulants. It's really easy to tell when the dose is too high. Both the sympathetic nervous response and the euphoric feelings get obviously counterproductive. On the other hand doctors have learned to be wary of self-reporting there on account of drug abusers wanting that artificial euphoria. Just goes to show that both the physician and the patient have to be honest partners working together to get the best results for well-being.
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The point being made is that alcohol is legal, and massively harmful, and the public health measures around alcohol aren't great, and so maybe we need to be cautious when decriminalising and legalising other drugs to ensure that we have some health protections in place. At the moment we don't have those. We have strong denial in lots of people that cannabis might cause harm in some people. All the stuff currently bei…
> The point being made is that alcohol is legal, and massively harmful Harmful relative to what? An ideal world where nobody drinks? We've tried idealism via a prohibition and last I checked, that caused so much harm we went back to letting people have a drink. A comparison of drugs vs no drugs ignores reality - we are not lab rats, we live within a society and a little vice lubricates the cogs of society. To deny th…
The problem is alcohol abuse. It is problem for person health and public order.